The Importance of Riot Control Helmets and Factors Affecting Performance

The riot control helmet is a kind of police equipment that protects law enforcement officers from potential head and face injuries or other potential injuries (such as being splattered with corrosive chemicals) while performing their duties.

It is important to protect the head with the riot control helmet

The head is a vulnerable part of the body, and the most important organs of the human body are inside the head. Therefore, protecting the head is very important. For riot personnel, protecting the head is even more important. The work of riot personnel is relatively dangerous, with changing work environments and unstable factors of danger that constantly surround them.

When working, riot personnel need to concentrate heavily and their own protection is even more important. If their bodies are injured, they still have some combat ability, but if their heads are seriously struck, this can lead to blindness, bleeding, coma, and other symptoms. Riot personnel will lose their combat ability, which is very dangerous. At this time, the riot control helmet will play a very important role. riot control helmets have many strong features such as being lightweight, well-protected, resistant to knives and hard objects, and so on. They can protect your head well.

What factors affect the performance of the riot control helmet?

The riot control helmet is an important protective equipment that mainly protects the safety of police and improves their combat effectiveness. It has a full helmet design consisting of a hard helmet cover, a flexible liner, and a suspension system. Its main function is to resist two types of injuries: direct impacts of blunt or thrown objects to the head and potential non-inertial penetrating injuries to the head. The performance of the riot control helmet determines the safety level. So, what factors affect the performance of a riot control helmet?

• If the riot control helmet is not pierced, reducing the thickness of the helmet will increase the maximum acceleration of the neck and head, thereby reducing the protective performance of the helmet.

• The liner inside the helmet is an important part that prevents non-penetrating injuries to the head. The choice of liner material and thickness will affect the protective performance of the helmet. Generally speaking, the higher the flexibility, the better the cushioning effect, but it is more likely to be compressed and fail. The material and thickness of the liner should be balanced when designing.
  

• Under the same working conditions, increasing the thickness of the liner material of a riot control helmet can extend the time that the force acts on the head, improving the protective performance of the riot control helmet.